Lecture Topics:

• New Mexico Mission Music Schools in the 17th and 18th Centuries
• Moros y Cristianos
• Romances
• Origins of liturgical drama.
• The performance of the Corpus Christi Feast.
• The Shepard’s Play. Pastorelas. Origins and evolution.
• The Tradition of the celebration of the Three Wise Men. Origins and evolution.
• Matachines. Origins and evolution.
• Military Games of Colonial New Spain.